Auguste Defauconpret

Auguste Jean-Baptiste Defauconpret (1767, Lille – 1843) was a French man of letters.

Initially a lawyer, Defauconpret relocated to England where he wrote some now forgotten novels. However, he became well known for his translations into French of English-language novels, particularly those of Walter Scott and James Fenimore Cooper, although he modified the text of The Last of the Mohicans to be more favorable to the French.

References

1951 paper on Fenimore Cooper by Willard Thorp

External links

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Works by Auguste-Jean-Baptiste Defauconpret at Project Gutenberg

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